Does the forest industry even start to care about
the grossly pauperised landscape it is
bequeathing our/their children and grandchildren, do they think
future generations
wont mind that we are exploiting and destroying resources
their economies will
need and in doing so, pollute and destroy the future capacity
of the earth.

The relative stability of natural landscapes is as a consequence
of the complexity
and diversity of species which exist competitively and co-operatively,
whereas
the order of the industrialised, scientifically modified and simplified
landscapes, isinstability and unsustainable.

BEFORE

AFTER

Celery Top Pine, a renown boat building
timber, heaped up ready to burn

Replica Norfolk was framed and
decked with Celery Top Pine

Celery Top Pine, like Huon Pine is a very slow growing timber
needing at least 250 years to grow to a size where a reasonable
sawlog and high recovery rate can be achieved.

Valuably Deep Red Myrtle, Split, Smashed-up
and ready to be burned.

Valuable Birds Eye Myrtle logs mutilated
and ready to be burned.

Even in their trashed state, there are still thousands of dollars worth
of finished furniture/craft products in what is left of these logs.

Thousands of dollars worth of Myrtle, Sassafras, and Celery
Top Pine logs together with
Eucalypt logs suitable for firewood heaped up and left all
over this coupe to be burned.

Myrtle and Sassafras need to be around 150 years old before they are
of sufficient size and quality to make reasonable sawlogs.
Selectively logged there would have been a very valuable resource available
for future generations.

Given present forest management practices:-
Wherever the continued clearfelling/hot burning of native forests
and short rotation regrowth takes place, we will never see many
of these species again.

So few have pauperised so much for so little in such a transitory
period of time.

Theyve got it wrong. A capitalist
economy based on constant, unlimited
growth is a reckless fantasy because ecosystems are not limitless
--
there are just so many pollinators, so many aquifers, so much
fertile soil.
In nature, unchecked rapid growth is the ideology of the invasive
species and the cancer cell. Growth as an end in itself is ultimately
self-destructive.

Chip Ward

The sterility of mono-culture eucalypts in the fore
and middle ground suitable only for low value woodchips destroy all
those things described before that the Native forest in the background
provide.
In addition there are highly toxic chemicals and 1080 used in the establishment
of plantations,
seeChemical Page
www.water-sos.org

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Plantations and mono-culture eucalypt regrowth
dry the landscape
out, they are highly volatile and a fire-storm waiting to happen.

The relative stability of a rich diversity.

The instability of a simplified mono-culture
fire prone landscape.

The Science of steep slope logging is an
unconscionable criminal abuse of the earth.

Heavy soil loss from clearfelled coupes.

The lament for a dying Tamar courtesy of
the science of clearfelling steep slopes.